[raw_anon_1111]

Start by having a life outside of computers - “touch grass”. Your job is a method to exchange labor for money to support your addiction to food and shelter. Nothing more or less.

I’m 51 now, during the first 15 years of my career, I got off of work and taught fitness classes as more of a hobby and commitment device than for the money and about once per month, my friends and I did charity races for fun. Of course we hung out at each others place, went to clubs, ate out etc.

I traveled 3-4x a year. Now on the other end with grown (step)kids, my wife and I travel a lot (nothing exotic and I know the credit card tricks).

You make good money in BigTech - enjoy it. While I know it’s not possible now because all of them have RTO mandates, my wife and I spent the second year I was in BigTech (after Covid) traveling around the country and I was still able to save a lot and pay off debt.